Seasonal trucking operation?
 

Has anyone had success trying to run their own authority only part of the year, say for 3-4 months during the winter?
Is this possible or is their simply too much overhead to make any money this way?

Running your authority is expensive. Your insurance costs will be the major expense next to your equipment costs, providing you plan on sitting a lot. Unless you plan on doing it as a hobby or have some really high paying seasonal freight, I think it would be too expensive for what you would get out of it.

Re: Seasonal trucking operation?
 

]Has anyone had success trying to run their own authority only part of the year, say for 3-4 months during the winter?

Not as a O/O and Particularily not during the Winter when freight is in a slow period.

Really hard to say in today's trucking environment, years ago if you had your equipment paid off and ran the truck 24 a day with a couple of drivers you could do what you are talking about during the tomato and grape harvest in Ca. A big fruit harvest with a processing plant close by would be the only way i could see it being done, if the rates today are comparable to the cost of living years ago.